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Dear Tom Sawyer, Thanks for the replies.... That is the beauty of this forum -- that someone can ask the collective minds for advice and the situation can be viewed from other than one perspective.... I was beginning to think I was crazy to question the installation.... I tried to ask...

Update: I spoke with the chap who installed it and he is insistent that no air could be going back out of the de-aerator..... he says that it is just microns of air and would never be sucked back.... Meanwhile there doesn't appear to be any air leak at the hot water heater pump that could be...

My aunt's heating system has been having issues ever since a Westwood de-aerator was installed only on the main furnace supply to the Riello.... The system has a 1,000 gal inground tank that is a fair distance from the boiler room.... What happens is that when the oil tank gets to about half...

Thanks for the Maccarone referral I contacted Maccarone and had Jim Brown at the house for 3 hours yesterday.... developed a gameplan and did some repairs and started on others... the question of course is where to still be able to get parts..... and unfortunately for the gameplan, my aunt...

Hi HJ, As always you are the ultimate font of knowledge...., thank you! Thought I would also post the hot water valve stem photo that I just took a little while ago as it is different than the cold water one's washer setup.... you can see the difference in how the rubber washer is...

Hi Smooky, I tried deabath but my stems don't match up to what they show there..... mine are a bit different in size and configuration....

My elderly aunt's house was built between 1928 and 1930... took just over two years to build the house, and it has the best Crane fixtures for that day.... they don't make them like they used to.... in fact the fixtures are also in my parents' house built 1929-1930.... gorgeous white...

1938 American Standard shower faucet R1400 - other bath - repaired in 2006 As a comparison, here are photos of the shower faucet I repaired in June 2006. It is an American Standard, single handle faucet R1400 model made from 1928 until 1970. The repair kit was FKAS-R1400A and cost me $10.39...

Status Update - Can you Identify this? Okay, here is the latest, after soaking the screws with PB Blaster and using visegrip on a stubby fat slotted screwdriver, the brass cover came off.... unfortunately, the repair kit the plumbing supply house said was for this faucet doesn't look like it...

Shower has been dripping. The house was built in 1938 and renovated once in 1958. and this shower faucet is probably from 1938. The other shower's faucet is definitely from 1938 and I had to repair that in 2006, at which time I bought a rebuild kit for this one (FKAS 201-2). At the time I...

Hello all..... I am a new to posting here but have been reading others' postings for the past five years, and I have to say it has been very, very helpful. My current issue is with the line out from my Millenium hot water system back to the boiler. [Link to photos is included below.] When my...